♪ Bob and Brad ♪
♪ The two most famous ♪
♪ Physical therapists on the internet ♪
- [Bob] Howdy there, folks.
I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- [Brad] Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- So, my nephew's wife started a new job.
She really likes it.
- Does this have anything to do with the video?
- It does. - Okay.
- And she's on her feet all day long,
nine, 10 hours on her feet.
- Concrete floor, hard floor of some sort?
- Well, I don't know what it is,
but I know that her legs and her feet get very sore.
- Sure. - Dogs are barking
by the end of the day.
- And we're no talking about Fido.
(Bob laughs)
- She asked me for some suggestions
and I gave her some that she could do at work.
But I also gave her one that she could do at home
that's been verified by research.
- Okay.
- So let's get into that.
Let's talk about first what you can do at work.
So, she really can't even sit down most of the time.
- So she's not in one place,
she's on her feet but she's walking.
- On her feet.
But what you can do is,
you can actually do some ankle pumps.
Do one at a time.
- [Brad] Just get the ankles and the feet moving.
- [Bob] And you can also do a circle.
- [Brad] Yeah.
- [Bob] It's just gonna make a big difference.
And then when you get a chance,
you can actually grab onto a counter top
or something like that and stretch the calf.
- So right now he's doing this leg.
- [Bob] The back one, right.
And I'm bending the knee to give a little more stretch.
You can do it straight, too.
- Yep, get two different muscle groups.
There you go.
- All right, on breaks, when you do get a break, finally,
you want to take a, well, you can take a golf ball,
you can take a lacrosse ball, something,
and just throw it down on the floor.
And you're gonna roll the bottom of your foot with it.
- [Brad] Yeah, this is my favorite.
I picked this up for a dollar,
right at the checkout of a store
the lights is not a big deal, but it's soft,
but it's got these little pricklies on there.
And if you can take your shoe off and do this,
it's amazing how good it feels.
Oh, sorry.
It feels really good on the bottom of your feet.
So it kind of wakes you up that way a little bit.
And it's just good for the same reason that these ball are.
- You're really stretching out the fascia,
stretching out the muscles.
It's really good for the bottom of the foot.
- Yep.
- All right, now we'll go to,
what is it that you can do at home?
The study was called, and this is what supports this idea,
is "Intermittent Pneumatic Compression
for Prolonged Standing Workers with Leg Edema and Pain."
- Wow. - [Bob] Yeah.
(Bob laughing)
In other words, if you stand all day
and you're getting leg pain, this is for you
'cause what they found is
that people had significant leg pain and discomfort
and swelling actually improved
after using intermittent pneumatic compression.
- So we're talking about someone
that has been working all day? - Right.
- But not an athlete that has sore muscles.
- We'll talk about that too.
- Oh, okay, we'll get into that, good.
- This is from iReliev
and it's called the leg and foot air compression system.
And I think if you are a person
that wants some relief at the end of the day from working,
and kind of have a treat where you don't have to do much,
besides strap it on and let it go.
You can put your feet up while you're sitting on the couch
and off you go.
- So I have this one, well, obviously there's two,
one for each leg and then there's the pump unit,
it does plug in to 110 volts.
And you can vary the intensity.
There's low, medium, and high.
- And they're also called sequence
or you could do the whole thing at once.
- Right, so right now I've got it on sequence.
So it compresses differently on the foot
and then on the calf.
And it has a sequence where it goes back and forth,
versus compression on the whole thing.
And it's not squishing my legs, so it's painful.
And again, you can adjust it through different levels,
but I can definitely feel it.
And it's kind of nice.
I get some of that pressure on the arch of my foot,
on the bottom, which feels really good and the top.
- Well my daughter tried one of these
and she really liked the compression.
- Sure, yep.
- Now, if you are an athlete, they did a study called,
"A Randomized Controlled Trial of Massage
and Pneumatic Compression for Ultra Marathon Recovery."
- Yeah.
- So these are people that were running ultra marathons.
What is that about 50 miles?
- 50 to a hundred.
- Oh geez.
So after they were done, they used this for 20 minutes
and it did give them relief, subjectively.
- Yeah, felt good, oh yeah.
- But over the next seven days,
they didn't find much difference
between not doing anything and using this.
- With the exception of feeling good.
- It felt good.
- No recovery, nothing that they could measure.
- So it was one study.
I know that the marathoner in our group,
Mike, he really likes it.
I mean, he's using it, but we can't say studies support it.
- Right. - Besides it feels good.
- Yeah, anecdotal. - Right.
- Which there's nothing wrong with it.
- No. - As long as it
doesn't hurt someone. - And as they come up
with some studies that show
that it does help. - Sure.
- These things are not gonna hurt anything,
that's the positive thing about them.
So, very good, again if you're gonna,
if you work all day, on your feet, honest living,
this is gonna help you out.
- So when's Mike running his marathon?
Is it pretty soon? - Coming up soon.
- Tanner, you should know that.
- Las Vegas, Nevada I believe.
- You're buddies and you don't even know
what's going on with him?
This is big!
- It's next month, I believe.
- 26, 22 miles he's running. - Yeah.
- Yeah.
- All right, thanks everybody for watching.
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